Investigation Interactive Map: Pollution Hits Chicago's West, South Sides Hardest New research shows toxic threats are greatest in minority neighborhoods near industrial areas. Interactive map also shows pollution dangers near your home. Oct 25, 2018 6:00 AM
Investigation Searchable Map: Is Your Blue Cart Recycling Tossed in a Landfill? Browse and search more than 500,000 recorded residential recycling contaminations. Oct 10, 2018 12:00 AM
Investigation As Tons of Chicago Recycling Go to Dumps, a Private Firm Is Paid Twice A BGA probe finds residential recycling in Chicago is unequal depending on what company picks it up, and where. Oct 10, 2018 12:00 AM
Investigation Decision Nears On Rauner Plan For Easing Coal Plant Pollution Limits The Rauner administration seeks to extend a lifeline to a $13 billion energy company, a plan that would lead to more pollution-related deaths and illnesses, opponents warn. Oct 2, 2018 4:00 PM
Investigation Emanuel Decries Police Code of Silence. But City-Paid Expert Says It Doesn't Exist. An expert witness hired by the Emanuel administration has disputed in several lawsuits the existence of a code of silence among Chicago police to thwart misconduct allegations. The mayor claimed the opposite in the wake of the Laquan McDonald shooting. Sep 24, 2018 10:00 PM
Investigation Residentes Del Sur Y El Oeste De Chicago Luchan Contra El Ayuntamiento Por La Presencia De Industrias Contaminantes Comunidades más afluentes evitan industrias como los centros de distribución, una planta de reciclaje de chatarra y un fabricante de asfalto. Los residentes dicen que la ciudad tiene que cambiar la forma en que le permite a la industria pesada ubicarse cerca de escuelas, parques y hogares. Aug 27, 2018 10:00 AM
Investigation Fed-up Residents on South, West Sides Fight City Hall Over Influx of Polluting Industries Residents protest distribution centers, a metal scrap recycling plant and an asphalt maker — businesses other communities shun. The city has to change the way it permits heavy industry from locating near schools, parks and homes, they say. Aug 6, 2018 5:30 AM
Investigation A Manafort Lender’s Emanuel Ties Chicago’s mayor spent millions in city taxpayer funds to aid expansion of the same West Loop bank prosecutors now say made $16 million in questionable loans to a former Trump campaign chairman now on trial for alleged tax and bank fraud. Aug 3, 2018 5:30 AM
Investigation CHA Seniors File Complaint Over Missing Grab Bars The grab bar complaint is the latest in a series of grievances by CHA residents about the agency’s failure to keep residents safe. Jul 16, 2018 8:30 PM
Investigation Water District Approves $95,000 to Former Executive Director Following Unexplained Resignation Executive stepped down at the end of June after sanitary district’s board conducted investigation. Jul 12, 2018 5:15 PM
Investigation A Veteran Cook County Judge Has Been Repeatedly Blocked from Hearing Sex Offense Cases. Here’s Why. An unprecedented investigation of court data finds systematic effort to keep Judge James Linn from deciding sex charges after a controversial ruling he made years ago. Oct 22, 2020 12:01 PM
Investigation Meet the Cook County Judge Defense Attorneys Least Want to Appear Before Judge Diane Gordon Cannon criticized for verbal outbursts, a pro-prosecution bent and jailing of probationers for sometimes-minor infractions. Oct 22, 2020 11:58 AM
Investigation O’Hare’s Billions in Broken Promises For more than 50 years, the airport has been plagued by corruption and costly delays. The politically connected cash in. Meanwhile, passengers trudge through a transit hub that persistently underperforms. Jul 24, 2019 6:00 AM